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| 9 | * ''Film/CabinBoy'' (1994) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $3.6 million. This was part of a bad year for Creator/TimBurton, with both ''Film/EdWood'' and ''Cabin Boy'' (which he produced) both flopping at the box office (though the former film was [[VindicatedByHistory vindicated later]]). It's also the only movie that writer Adam Resnick directed, and it scorched his movie career. He wouldn't write another cinematic screenplay until 2000. It also didn't do Chris Elliott's movie career any favors, either. |
| 10 | * ''Film/CaddyshackII'' (1988) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $11,798,302. None of the cast of the first ''Caddyshack'', barring Creator/ChevyChase and Creator/RodneyDangerfield (who spearheaded this film's development) would appear in the sequel, and Dangerfield himself dropped out due to ExecutiveMeddling over its planned LighterAndSofter tone. This movie sunk director Allan Arkush's career for 6 years and co-writer Pj Torokvei's for 8, and the other writer, Creator/HaroldRamis, didn't write a screenplay that was not attached to an animated or ''Ghostbusters'' film until ''Groundhog Day''. |
| 11 | * ''Film/{{Cadence}}'' (1990) — Budget, $8.5 million. Box office, $2,070,871. This military drama is notable as Creator/MartinSheen's directorial debut, and with him co-starring with his sons, Ramon Estevez and Creator/CharlieSheen. A limited release and lukewarm reviews doomed it to a poor reception. |
| 12 | * ''Film/{{The Call of the Wild|2020}}'' (2020) — Budget, $125-150 million. Box office, $62,342,368 (domestic), $110,954,519 (worldwide). This version of [[Literature/TheCallOfTheWild the classic novel]] directed by ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{How to Train Your Dragon|2010}}'' writer-director Creator/ChrisSanders (in his live-action and solo directorial debut), and the first film from the newly renamed Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios, received mixed reviews, with most critics questioning the decision to make Creator/HarrisonFord's canine co-star (and all the film's animals) [[GratuitousSpecialEffects all CGI]] rather than use some live animals or just make an animated feature. This creative decision was also its financial downfall, as it ballooned the budget. In spite of holding well against fellow CGI-live action hybrid ''Film/{{Sonic the Hedgehog|2020}}'' in its opening weekend, the arrival of ''WesternAnimation/{{Onward}}'' led to a steep dropoff before the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic ended its box office window early. |
| 13 | * ''Film/TheCampaign'' (2012) — Budget, $95 million. Box office, $86,907,746 (domestic), $104,907,746 (worldwide). This film about two buffoons running for Congressman scored on par with Creator/WillFerrell's other hits, but the huge budget and lack of appeal outside outside America harmed it. |
| 14 | * ''Film/CampusMan'' (1987) — Budget, $4.9 million. Box office, $989,528. |
| 15 | * ''Film/CanadianBacon'' (1995) — Budget, $11 million. Box office, $178,104. Little wonder it's Creator/MichaelMoore's only theatrical foray outside the documentary genre to date (admittedly, he has done more than almost anyone to make nonfiction films profitable). This and ''Film/{{Mallrats}}'' led to threats by Universal and [=PolyGram=] higher-ups to shut down Gramercy Pictures; it soldiered on until 2000. |
| 16 | * ''Literature/CanneryRow'' (1982) — Budget, $11.3 million. Box office, $5,301,539. This film version of the Creator/JohnSteinbeck novel ([[AdaptationAmalgamation and its sequel,]] ''[[AdaptationAmalgamation Sweet Thursday]]'') was the directorial debut of screenwriter David S. Ward. After its lackluster financial reception, Ward stuck to only screenwriting until ''Film/MajorLeague''. It is also known for being the film that caused Creator/RaquelWelch to sue MGM for wrongful firing after she was abruptly sacked from it. (She was cast as the female lead, which Creator/DebraWinger took over.) Welch won the suit, but she ended up getting blackballed from Hollywood as a result of the lawsuit. |
| 17 | * ''Film/CantStopTheMusic'' (1980) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $2 million. Effectively destroyed the Music/VillagePeople and the directing career of Nancy Walker right away, as well as putting a major setback in Creator/CaitlynJenner's career and signifying that [[DiscoSucks disco was dead as a mainstream genre]]. Being released on exactly the same day as ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'' was not the wisest move. Along with ''Film/{{Xanadu}}'', ''Can't Stop the Music'' inspired the creation of the [[MediaNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward Razzies]], with the latter winning the inaugural Worst Picture award. The man who produced this film, Allan Carr, never recovered from it, delivering a few more critical bombs over the '80s and eventually masterminding the infamous opening number to the 1989 Oscars with WesternAnimation/{{Snow White|AndTheSevenDwarfs}} and Creator/RobLowe; this event was ripped into pieces and bits by critics and brought Snow White supremo Disney down on the Academy and Carr like a load of bricks, crushing him for good at that point. |
| 18 | * ''Film/CapitalismALoveStory'' (2009) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $14,363,397 (domestic), $17.4 million (worldwide). This got some decent reviews from critics, but it didn't do well enough to make back its budget, and put a severe dent in Michael Moore's career; the controversial documentary director would wait 6 years to release his next movie. |
| 19 | * ''Film/CaptainCorellisMandolin'' (2001) — Budget, $57 million. Box office, $25,543,895 (domestic), $62,112,895 (worldwide). Was a bit of a setback for director John Madden, who didn't get his next directing credit until 2005. Screenwriter Shawn Slovo, meanwhile, didn't get her next credit until 2006. |
| 20 | * ''Film/CaptainRon'' (1992) — Budget, $24 million. Box office, $22,518,097. Director Thom Eberhardt didn't work on another cinematically released movie for 15 years. |
| 21 | * ''Film/CaptiveHearts'' (1987) — Budget, unknown. Box office, $73,757. This romantic drama set in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII had a limited release spanning 41 theaters. This was the penultimate theatrical film for director Paul Almond; his final film, ''The Dance Goes On'', came out five years later. |
| 22 | * ''Film/CaptiveState'' (2019) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $8,594,383. |
| 23 | * ''Series/Car54WhereAreYou'' (1994) — Budget, $10.7 million. Box office, $1,238,080. This earned a severe backlash from Rosie O'Donnell, who advised people not to rent it. It was also shot in 1990, but edited over the years, which removed the musical numbers. |
| 24 | * ''Film/{{Caravans}}'' (1978) — Budget, $14 million. Box office, $3,930,501. This was shredded by critics and the original novel's author, James A. Michener, as a laughably bad ClicheStorm. Director James Fargo had much better luck when ''Film/EveryWhichWayButLoose'' was released the next month. |
| 25 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheCareBearsAdventureInWonderland'' (1987) — Budget, $5 million. Box office, $2,608,000 (domestic), $6,000,000 (worldwide). The film's failure [[FranchiseKiller began the death of the franchise]] and caused a fourth film, ''WesternAnimation/CareBearsNutcrackerSuite'', to air as a television special. No more ''Franchise/CareBears'' movies were made until ''Journey to Joke-a-lot'' in 2004 and none were released theatrically until ''Oopsy Does It'' in 2007. |
| 26 | * ''Film/{{Carpool}}'' (1996) — Budget, $17 million. Box office, $3,325,651. One of the 3 [[StarDerailingRole career-halting films with Tom Arnold released that year]], and the penultimate major film from long-time director Arthur Hiller. His next movie, ''Burn Hollywood Burn'', which he infamously took the "Alan Smithee" moniker for in a failed attempt to distance himself from the movie, killed both the name and his filmmaking career (he did one movie with [[Music/BonJovi Jon Bon Jovi]] after that, and that's it). |
| 27 | * ''Film/CarryOnAtYourConvenience'' (1971) — Budget, unknown. Box office, £220,000. This entry in the ''Film/CarryOn'' series was its first flop. A big factor was its portrayal of the working class as lazy and stupid, which alienated its working class fanbase, who boycotted the film. |
| 28 | * ''Film/CarryOnColumbus'' (1992) — Budget, £2,500,000. Box office, £1.6,000,000. While it outperformed the other two Columbus films, it failed to recoup its budget. This was an ill-advised to revive the series that proved to be its final death knell. |
| 29 | * ''Film/Case39'' (2010) — Budget, $26 million. Box office, $13,261,851 (domestic), $28,189,979 (worldwide). Following its completion in early 2007, this movie's domestic premiere was delayed twice before premiering in 2010. It's the most recent American picture from director Christian Alvart, who has mainly focused on German media since. It also marked the end of Creator/ReneeZellweger's toplining career. |
| 30 | * ''Film/CasinoJack'' (2010) — Budget, $12.5 million. Box office, $1.1 million. This was the final film from director George Hickenlooper since he died before it opened, and writer Norman Snider hasn't done another movie. |
| 31 | * ''Film/CasualtiesOfWar'' (1989) - Budget, $22.5 million. Box office, $18.7 million. A Vietnam War drama from Creator/BrianDePalma, boasting the intriguing star duo of Creator/MichaelJFox and Creator/SeanPenn, this was the first film Dawn Steel greenlit during her tenure as president of Columbia Pictures. It opened to great critical reception but an apathetic audience one. It's best remembered for being Creator/JohnCReilly's film debut and Creator/JohnLeguizamo's first major role. |
| 32 | * ''Film/{{Catch a Fire}}'' (2006) — Budget, $14 million. Box office, $5.7 million. Got good reviews, but was a critical hit to director Phillip Noyce, producer Robyn Slovo, and screenwriter Shawn Slovo's careers. Noyce did not direct his next film until 2010, Robyn didn't produce her next film until 2011 with ''Film/TinkerTailorSoldierSpy'', and her sister Shawn did not write her next film until 2013. |
| 33 | * ''Film/CatchAndRelease'' (2007) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $16,158,487. The only film directed by Susannah Grant, who went back to screenwriting after this. It was delayed by nearly a year. |
| 34 | * ''Film/CatPerson'' (2023) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $352,093. This adaptation of [[Literature/YouKnowYouWantThis Kristen Roupenian's viral short story]] from ''Magazine/TheNewYorker'' debuted at Sundance to extremely mixed reaction, centered on some controversial AdaptationExpansion elements added by director Susanna Fogel and screenwriter Michelle Ashford (including a wild PlotTwist not in the original story). Even so, Creator/{{Netflix}} offered to pick up the film for streaming, but for a reported $5 million pricetag that would've ensured the film's backers would lose money (but Netflix's high profile would've still guaranteed the film an audience). They said no and pursued a theatrical release, but offers from Creator/BleeckerStreet and Creator/OpenRoadFilms were rejected in favor of one from the more arthouse-oriented Rialto Pictures. Rialto opened it in a very limited release (4 theaters) in October, but expanded it to 26 theaters later, clearly still hoping that the short story's fame and the film's well-regarded stars (Creator/EmiliaJones and Creator/NicholasBraun) could generate some buzz that would enable a wider release. But reviews were lukewarm and it never found its audience. After Rialto pulled it back to just 3 theaters, it earned a mere '''$37'''--yes, double digits, implying that it sold around three tickets nationwide in four days--over Thanksgiving weekend, leading Rialto to finally dump it onto lower-tier streaming services at the start of December (Spectrum Cable's on-demand service, and Hoopla, the free streaming platform aimed at library patrons). |
| 35 | * ''Film/{{Cats}}'' (2019) — Budget, $95 million (production costs), $196 million (total costs). Box office, $27,166,770 (domestic), $73,695,985 (worldwide). Creator/TomHooper’s [[AllStarCast star-studded]] adaptation of the Creator/AndrewLloydWebber [[Theatre/{{Cats}} musical]] was [[TaintedByThePreview doomed the moment its first trailer dropped]], thanks to its [[UnintentionalUncannyValley "digital fur technology"]] that was widely mocked for turning the cast into bizarre CGI cat-human-hybrids. The film was ChristmasRushed to such an extent that its first prints had [[SpecialEffectFailure unfinished effects]], leading Universal, in an unprecedented move, to issue new prints to fix these effects mere days after the movie's release. This wasn't enough to save ''Cats'', which was declawed by critics tearing it apart and the family crowd being alienated by its [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids bizarre sexual undertones]]. The film made only $6.6 million on opening weekend, one of the worst in box office history for a wide-release film. Opening the same day as ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'' certainly didn't help, as well as facing strong runs from ''Film/JumanjiTheNextLevel'' and ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII''. Universal was confident the film could overcome this weak start[[note]]similar to how ''Film/TheGreatestShowman'' had managed to become a SleeperHit against [[Film/TheLastJedi the previous episode]] of ''Star Wars'',[[/note]] but ''Cats'' lacked audience enthusiasm, falling from 3,380 theaters to '''146''' within a month. The end result was a $113 million loss for Universal, which they felt all the more with the subsequent bombing of ''Film/{{Dolittle}}'' just a month later. |
| 36 | * ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'' (1997) — Budget, $32 million. Box office, $3,566,637. [[ScrewedByTheNetwork It fell through the cracks]] after Creator/WarnerBros bought Turner just before the movie was released, and proceeded to not promote it at all. Helmer and animator Mark Dindal saw a blowback to his career that has yet to go away, especially with his involvement in Disney's ''WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle'' a decade later, which WAS a success but disliked by critics and was the last nail in CEO Michael Eisner's coffin. |
| 37 | * ''Film/{{Cattle Annie and Little Britches}}'' (1981) — Budget, $5.1 million. Box office, $534,816. This Western was released around the time that the genre was starting to die at the box office. Universal gave up on the film after a disappointing run in the Southwestern United States and only played it in a certain amount of theatres to fulfill contractual obligations. |
| 38 | * ''[[Film/TheCavemansValentine The Caveman's Valentine]]'' (2001) — Budget, $13.5 million. Box office, $687,194. Its release topped out at 59 theaters. Director Kasi Lemmons wouldn't return to the director's chair until 2007's ''Talk to Me''. |
| 39 | * ''Film/CecilBDemented'' (2000) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $1,961,544. Part of a 2000/2001 slate that put production company Artisan Entertainment on life support; they would rebound the next year before being absorbed by Lionsgate. Creator/JohnWaters also had to wait 4 years before attempting to write another screenplay. |
| 40 | * ''Film/{{Celebrity}}'' (1998) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $5,078,660. This was not one of Creator/WoodyAllen's better received films [[note]]its Rottentomatoes score is 41%[[/note]] but it didn't stop him one bit. |
| 41 | * ''Film/CelticPride'' (1996) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $9,255,027. Was a serious blow to the film careers of its stars Creator/DanAykroyd, Creator/DanielStern, and Creator/DamonWayans. It also temporarily halted the film career of its writer, Creator/JuddApatow, who focused on television after ''Celtic Pride'' flopped and didn't return to the big screen until ''Film/TheFortyYearOldVirgin'' nine years later. |
| 42 | * ''Film/ChairmanOfTheBoard'' (1998) — Budget, $7 million. Box office, $306,715. This is Carrot Top's only starring theatrical release, and every film directed by Alex Zamm between this and 2014 were DirectToVideo and {{Made for TV Movie}}s. Not only that, Creator/NormMacdonald infamously roasted the film on ''Series/LateNightWithConanOBrien'' during O'Brien's interview with one of the film's stars Courtney Thorne-Smith as she attempted to promote the film. |
| 43 | * ''Film/TheChamber'' (1996) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $22,540,359. This Creator/JohnGrisham adaptation was trashed by critics and lasted at least three weeks in theaters. Screenwriter Creator/WilliamGoldman and Grisham [[CreatorBacklash had nothing nice to say about the film]]. After some minor hits with ''Film/TheFirm'', ''Film/ThePelicanBrief'', and ''Film/ATimeToKill'', Grisham agreed to do a film adaptation of ''Literature/TheChamber'' before the book was even complete, and the screenplay wasn't even finished by the time filming started. He later said he'd never do that again thanks to the performance of this film, though with this basically being a GenreKiller for his books being adapted to the silver screen, this is kind of a moot point. Fortunately for him, his career as a novelist was unaffected by this film's failure. |
| 44 | * ''Film/ChancesAre'' (1989) — Budget, $16 million. Box office, $16,278,590. Best known nowadays for its BreakawayPopHit, "After All" by Music/{{Cher}} and Music/PeterCetera. |
| 45 | * ''Film/{{Chaos Walking|2021}}'' (2021) — Budget, $100 million. Box office, $26 million. Initially planned for a March 2019 release, a notoriously TroubledProduction, delayed reshoots, and executive disinterest at Creator/{{Lionsgate}} caused this to get pushed two years later. The film ended up getting dumped during the [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic coronavirus pandemic]] with InvisibleAdvertising, and its box office performance over the first three weeks was so poor that the studio almost immediately wrote it off as a financial loss. One of the biggest bombs ever, this set Lionsgate off to very shaky start to the 2020s that saw it recede from its prominence in the prior decade. |
| 46 | * ''Film/{{Chaplin}}'' (1992) — Budget, $31 million. Box office, $9.5 million. This is the final project co-writer Bryan Forbes worked on; he retired after this. It's also one of three 1992 bombs that set Creator/WilliamGoldman's cinematic career back by 5 years. This did OK with critics and earned Creator/RobertDowneyJr a lot of acclaim, including an Oscar nomination, for portraying Creator/CharlieChaplin. |
| 47 | * ''Film/CharlieBartlett'' (2007) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $5,254,980. This was delayed by six months due to MGM's financial problems and a crowded schedule. Its release was delayed so last minute that ads were still running by the time the old date came about. This was the directorial debut of Jon Poll and his only film until the just announced ''Responsible Adults''. |
| 48 | * ''Film/CharlieStCloud'' (2010) — Budget, $44 million. Box office, $31,162,545 (domestic), $48,190,704 (worldwide). This sent director Burr Steers's cinematic career into remission for six years. The movie didn't do much to help boost Creator/KimBasinger's post-[[Film/LAConfidential Oscar]] career, who essentially appears as Creator/ZacEfron's [[MissingMom mom]] in a fleeting, [[MoneyDearBoy paycheck]] [[CelebrityCameo cameo]]. |
| 49 | * ''Film/CharlieWilsonsWar'' (2007) — Budget, $75 million. Box office, $66,661,095 (domestic), $119,483,446 (worldwide). This was the last feature Creator/MikeNichols ever directed before his death seven years later. |
| 50 | * ''[[Film/CharliesAngels2019 Charlie's Angels]]'' (2019) — Budget, $48 million. Box office, $17,803,077 (domestic), $70,346,915 (worldwide). Writer/producer/director/co-star Creator/ElizabethBanks' continuation of both the [[Series/CharliesAngels '70s TV series]] and the [[Film/CharliesAngels2000 film duology from the early 2000s]] received mixed reviews and had an opening weekend of a mere $8.3 million, getting run over by ''Film/FordVFerrari'' and holdover ''Film/{{Midway|2019}}''. The third consecutive attempted franchise revival in three weeks to bomb at the box office, after ''Film/TerminatorDarkFate'' and ''Film/TheShining'' sequel ''Film/DoctorSleep''. |
| 51 | * ''Film/CharlotteGray'' (2001) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $5.3 million. The movie's failure caused production studio Film4 to undergo massive changes, laying off most of its staff and replacing their head director. |
| 52 | * ''The Chase'' (1966) -- Budget, $5.7 million. Box office, $2.3 million. The film version of Horton Foote's play and novel got respectful reviews, but it was derided for its muddled script and overblown acting. This was Lillian Hellman's final screenplay, while it marked the beginning of the end for producer Sam Spiegel. Its failure also kept Creator/MarlonBrando down the A-List until ''Film/TheGodfather''. |
| 53 | * ''Film/{{Chasers}}'' (1994) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $1,596,687. This was the last feature film directed by Creator/DennisHopper. |
| 54 | * ''Film/ChasingLiberty'' (2004) — Budget, $23 million. Box office, $12,313,323. This was released the same year as ''First Daughter'', both romantic comedies about the daughter of the US President. This one got slightly better reviews and box office results than its rival. |
| 55 | * ''Film/ChasingMavericks'' (2012) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $6,003,386. It would be 4 years before director Michael Apted worked on another theatrical film of any kind. This was also Curtis Hanson's last directed film before his death four years later. |
| 56 | * ''[[Film/Che1969 Che!]]'' (1969) — Budget, $5,160,000. Box office, $2.5 million (U.S. rentals). This biopic of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara was lambasted for, among other things, [[QuestionableCasting the baffling casting]] of Creator/OmarSharif in the title role, along with that of Creator/JackPalance as Fidel Castro and for being a soulless cash grab. Producer and writers Sy Bartlett and Michael Wilson didn't do any more movies before their deaths at the end of TheSeventies, and it set Robert Loggia's career back by five years. |
| 57 | * ''Film/{{Che}}'' (2008) — Budget, $58 million. Box office, $40.9 million. This interpretation of Che Guevara's life was a two-part double feature, and the two parts together form a 4-hour long movie. While it did eventually turn a profit and got good reviews (even getting star Creator/BenicioDelToro the Best Actor award when it premiered at Cannes), in the end, director Steven Soderbergh [[CreatorBacklash wishes he had never made this film.]] Writer Peter Buchman's career wound up in DevelopmentHell, and star Creator/BenicioDelToro, who was also a producer, produced only one other movie, ''Film/{{The Wolfman|2010}}'', to date. |
| 58 | * ''Film/CheckingOut'' (1988) — Budget, $4-6 million. Box office, $30,877. |
| 59 | * ''Film/{{Cheri}}'' (2009) — Budget, $23 million. Box office, $9,366,227. This film version of Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette's novel got a mixed reception from critics and topped out at 191 theaters. |
| 60 | * ''Film/Cherry2000'' (1988) - Budget, $10 million. Box office, ''$14,000''. An early starring role for Creator/MelanieGriffith, this sat on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment for two years as its GenreMashup (post-apocalyptic sci-fi/comedy) left Creator/OrionPictures stumped on how to market it. It ultimately got a limited theatrical release to capitalize on the buzz from Griffith's role in ''Film/WorkingGirl'', but performed miserably and quickly left for the video store shelves. Griffith considers this as the least favorite of her movies. Later gained a small following thanks to cable showings and a CultSoundtrack from Music/BasilPoledouris. |
| 61 | * ''Film/Child44'' (2015) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $12.9 million. Based on a real-life Soviet murder case, this was banned in Russia and its territories likely for presenting its legal system in a poor light. American critics didn't think highly of it either when it opened in a limited release with InvisibleAdvertising. |
| 62 | * ''Film/ChildrenOfMen'' (2006) — Budget, $76 million. Box office, $69,959,751. This was a highly AcclaimedFlop whose limited release tapped out at 1,524 theaters. Fortunately for director/writer Creator/AlfonsoCuaron, his [[Film/{{Gravity}} next film]] would have the box office to match its critical acclaim. |
| 63 | * ''Film/ChillFactor'' (1999) — Budget, $34-70 million. Box office, $11,263,966. This was director Hugh Johnson's only cinematic directorial effort, and the film receiving a sub-zero reception from critics and the box office put his career on ice until ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick2004'', where he returned to being a cinematographer. Stars Creator/SkeetUlrich and Creator/CubaGoodingJr both took massive hits to their careers, with Ulrich [[CreatorKiller subsequently being relegated to TV and direct-to-DVD]]. |
| 64 | * ''Film/ChinaMoon'' (1994) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $3,038,499. Wrapped in 1991, it was one of several films to be pushed back due to Creator/OrionPictures' bankruptcy. |
| 65 | * ''Film/AChineseGhostStory'' (1987) — Budget, $5,600,000. Box office, $2,395,120. This second film version of a story from ''Literature/StrangeStoriesFromAChineseStudio'', after 1960's ''The Enchanting Shadow'', became a smash hit and CultClassic across Asia, but it was [[BannedInChina kept out of mainland China]] until 2011. It still led to two sequels getting made. |
| 66 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheChipmunkAdventure'' (1987) — Budget, Unknown, but the Samuel Goldwyn Company spent $17 million on the advertising campaign. Box office, $6,804,312. This was the first feature film starring Alvin and the Chipmunks, and the last [[Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks for 20 years]]. |
| 67 | * ''Film/{{CHiPs}}'' (2017) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $18,600,152 (domestic), $25,500,152 (worldwide). This comedic film version of [[Series/{{CHiPs}} the '70s TV show]] was lambasted by critics for relying too much on lowbrow jokes. Its opening weekend saw it smashed by an array of newcomers and holdovers. |
| 68 | * ''Film/ChittyChittyBangBang'' (1968) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $7.5 million (rentals). This adaptation of the novel from Creator/IanFleming was the last time ''Film/JamesBond'' supremo Creator/AlbertRBroccoli dealt with something other than the Bond franchise, and was the last major film project for director Ken Hughes, who was coming off of being involved with the Bond spoof version of ''Film/{{Casino Royale|1967}}'' the year prior. Music/TheShermanBrothers didn't deal with anything not related to Disney again for another 4 years. Went on to become a beloved childhood classic on video. |
| 69 | * ''Theatre/AChorusLine'' (1985) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $14,202,899. The film version of the long-running musical didn't live up to the one singular sensation of its Broadway counterpart. A few common complaints by critics included awkward staging of the numbers and the RomanticPlotTumor which turned one of the show's subplots into the main one. |
| 70 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{A Christmas Carol|2009}}'' (2009) — Budget, $175-$200 million. Box office, $137,855,863 (domestic), $325 million (worldwide). Creator/RobertZemeckis's 3D motion-capture version of the [[Literature/AChristmasCarol Dickens classic]] received mixed reviews, with many critics calling it out as a case of style over substance. Its low performance led to Disney shuttering [=ImageMovers=] Digital the following year, only allowing them to finish [[Westernanimation/MarsNeedsMoms an even bigger flop]], and the resignation of Mark Zoradi, president of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Group and its head of worldwide marketing. |
| 71 | * ''WesternAnimation/ChristmasCarolTheMovie'' (2001) — Budget, £6 million/$12 million. Box office, $2,436,389. This animated adaption of the [[Literature/AChristmasCarol classic titular story]], despite its AllStarCast, was generally panned for its poor animation and bizarre storytelling choices. On the other hand, the song Creator/KateWinslet recorded and released for the movie, "What If", was [[BreakawayPopHit a top ten hit in several European countries that is far better remembered than the film it came from]]. |
| 72 | * ''Film/ChristmasEve'' (2015) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $91,302. Despite having big names like Creator/PatrickStewart, Jon Heder, and Creator/LarryKing as a producer, this movie joined the [[SarcasmMode prestigious]] 0% club on Website/RottenTomatoes and didn't make it to 6-digit gross due to having too many elevator scenes. King's career in movies may be over after this. |
| 73 | * ''[[Film/ChristopherColumbusTheDiscovery Christopher Columbus: The Discovery]]'' (1992) — Budget, $45 million. Box office, $8,251,071. The CreatorBreakdown behind the scenes led to the split of the Salkind producing duo, who never did a film together again. |
| 74 | * ''[[Film/PrinceCaspian The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian]]'' (2008) — Budget, $225 million (not counting marketing costs of $175 million), $400 million (counting them). Box office, $141,621,490 (domestic), $419,651,413 (worldwide). This was the second highest grossing film of the year for Disney behind Pixar's classic ''WesternAnimation/WallE'', but the film not being able to make up the budget in the United States (partly due to OK reviews instead of good ones, partly because it was sandwiched between the starting Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse film ''Film/IronMan1'' and ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull''), along with it barely exceeding the combined costs overall, still made it a failure. Producer Mark Johnson felt this didn't have the magic of the original 2005 film, and the loss led to a budgetary feud that got Disney to drop the franchise altogether; Walden Media did a ChannelHop to Fox for the third film, which had its budget and marketing reduced considerably and removed Andrew Adamson from the directing chair (he was replaced by ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'' director Michael Apted). ''Film/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader'' managed to break even by cutting down on the budget but still didn't perform to expectations, and a sequel or reboot to the series has been stuck in DevelopmentHell for over a decade. |
| 75 | * ''Film/{{The Chronicles of Riddick|2004}}'' (2004) — Budget, $105 million. Box office, $57,761,012 (domestic), $115,772,733 (worldwide). Did well on home media, though, but it would be 9 years before another theatrical film featuring Creator/{{Vin Diesel}}'s Riddick. (Diesel also would not produce another film until ''Fast & Furious'' in 2009.) As for director David Twohy, he did not direct or write until 2009. |
| 76 | * ''Film/{{Chu Chu and the Philly Flash}}'' (1981) — Budget, $7 million. Box office, $100,000 (rentals). This Creator/CarolBurnett[=/=]Creator/AlanArkin comedy was the last feature film directed by David Lowell Rich, who was relegated to directing TV movies for the rest of his career. It was also the only theatrical film written by Barbara Dana, who was Arkin's wife at the time. |
| 77 | * ''Film/TheChumscrubber'' (2005) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $351,401. Its domestic release topped out at 28 theaters and fizzled out after two weeks. Its UK release was even worse, as it was pulled '''[[EpicFail after a single weekend with a gross of $185]]'''. |
| 78 | * ''Film/{{Cimarron|1931}}'' (1931) — Budget, $1,433,000. Box office, $1,383,000. It was released in the early years of the Great Depression and it couldn't recoup its high budget for the time. It was a [[AcclaimedFlop critical smash]] and it became the first Western to win the Oscar for Best Picture, though modern assessment hasn't been kind, with it frequently appearing on lists of the worst Best Picture winners. |
| 79 | ** ''Film/{{Cimarron|1960}}'' (1960) — Budget, $5,421,000. Box office, $4,825,000. Unlike the 1931 version, this film wasn't received favorably by contemporary critics or audiences. |
| 80 | * ''Film/CinderellaMan'' (2005) — Budget, $88 million. Box office, $61,649,911 (domestic), $108,539,911 (worldwide). This {{biopic}} of boxer Jim Braddock received [[AcclaimedFlop raves from critics]] but was lambasted by boxing experts and the family of Max Baer for his HistoricalVillainUpgrade. It received such a knockout that AMC and Cinemark offered a money-back guarantee to dissatisfied filmgoers who saw the film; it didn't help. The decision to release the film in the summer, a season typically reserved for blockbusters, did it no favors, either. |
| 81 | * ''Film/CirqueDuFreakTheVampiresAssistant'' (2009) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $39,232,113. This CompressedAdaptation of the first three novels of ''Literature/TheSagaOfDarrenShan'' ended up [[StillbornFranchise staking the intended film series after one installment]]. |
| 82 | * ''Film/CitizenKane'' (1941) — Budget, $839,727. Box office, $1.6 million. The film's lead character as played by Creator/OrsonWelles was based off of William Randolph Hearst, and said portrayal enraged Hearst. Hearst ultimately banned all of his holdings from even mentioning the film and banned a multitude of movie theaters from showing it both to make the film fail and to avoid the StreisandEffect (plus World War II had cut off the European market, which hurt three other RKO Pictures films -- ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}'', in that order). Hearst's gambit worked, much to Welles and RKO's chagrin, and even though the film earned several Oscar nominations (and one win for its Screenplay), it faded into obscurity for a while until it got a revival in 1956. ''Citizen Kane'' is now considered one of the all-time classics of cinema and a prime example of an AcclaimedFlop, alongside the three animated Disney films and ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife''. |
| 83 | * ''Film/{{City by the Sea}}'' (2002) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $29,413,996. Writer Ken Hixon didn't write another screenplay for 8 years. Part of another string of failures for Franchise Pictures. |
| 84 | * ''Film/CityHall'' (1996) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $20,340,204. This was New York politician Kenneth Lipper's first and only screenplay and the first of three films he produced. His co-writer, Nicholas Pileggi, wouldn't write another film until the TV movie ''Kings of South Beach.'' The first of three consecutive flops for director Harold Becker. |
| 85 | * ''Film/CityOfEmber'' (2008) — Budget, $55 million. Box office, $17,929,684. Any plans to adapt the original novel's sequels were [[StillbornFranchise shut off]] when this adaptation flopped. Director Gil Kenan wouldn't direct another film until the ''Film/{{Poltergeist|2015}}'' remake in 2015. This was also the first lead role for Creator/SaoirseRonan, who would go on to star [[Film/TheLovelyBones in]] [[Film/TheWayBack2010 multiple]] [[Film/VioletAndDaisy bombs]] [[Film/{{Byzantium}} as]] [[Literature/TheHost a]] [[Film/HowILiveNow young]] [[Film/LostRiver actress]]. |
| 86 | * ''Film/{{City of Ghosts}}'' (2002) — Budget, $17.5 million. Box office, $1.2 million. The first and only feature film written and directed by Creator/MattDillon. |
| 87 | * ''Film/{{City of Joy|1992}}'' (1992) — Budget, $27 million. Box office, $14,683,921. One of several lifelong busts for Allied Filmmakers; its widest release was in 919 theaters and its reception was mixed. Roland Joffe's next film as director was his [[CreatorKiller career-tainting bust]] ''Film/{{The Scarlet Letter|1995}}''. |
| 88 | * ''Film/{{The City of Your Final Destination}}'' (2010) — Budget, $8.3 million. Box office, $1.4 million. This film was completed by 2007 but did not see general release until 2010. In addition, production company Merchant Ivory's "short-changing" of the cast and crew led to lawsuits against the firm from star Anthony Hopkins and singer Suzy Malick. The film's final implosion made it the final theatrical film for writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, who died in 2013, and the last film to credit producer James Ivory until 2017. Merchant Ivory also would not release another film until 2017. |
| 89 | * ''Film/CitySlickersIITheLegendOfCurlysGold'' (1994) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $43,622,150. This sequel to ''Film/CitySlickers'' [[{{Sequelitis}} fell short of its predecessor]] both critically and financially, releasing among a [[Film/TheFlintstones glut]] [[Film/BeverlyHillsCopIII of]] [[Film/RenaissanceMan comedies]] that year. Part of [[Film/MrSaturdayNight a]] [[Film/ForgetParis string]] [[Film/FathersDay1997 of bombs]] for Creator/BillyCrystal, while director Paul Weiland, whom had also directed the notorious ''Film/LeonardPart6'', has since kept to a low profile outside of a handful of productions in Europe and the UK. |
| 90 | * ''Literature/ACivilAction'' (1998) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $56,709,981. Steven Zailian's first directed film since ''Film/SearchingForBobbyFischer'' was a critical hit and it got Creator/RobertDuvall an Oscar nomination, but it died in a crowded Holiday season. Zailian's next directed film was the critical and financial disaster ''Film/AllTheKingsMen''. |
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| 94 | * ''Film/TheClaim'' (2000) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $1.4 million. Its widest release was in 29 theaters. |
| 95 | * ''Film/{{The Clan of the Cave Bear}}'' (1986) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $1,953,732. The film version of Jean M. Auel's novel [[StillbornFranchise killed off plans to adapt its sequels with its failure]]. The second feature film directed by cinematographer Michael Chapman, who would stick to that profession until 1995's ''The Viking Sagas'', his last film as director. |
| 96 | * ''Clara's Heart'' (1988) -- Budget, Unknown, but Creator/MTMEnterprises put up $5 million of the film's budget. Box office, $5,194,491. This family drama was an attempt to capture lightning in a bottle by giving Creator/WhoopiGoldberg her first serious role since ''Film/TheColorPurple1985''. Although the performances of Goldberg and newcomer Creator/NeilPatrickHarris were praised (the latter received a Golden Globe nomination for his performance), reviews were mixed and the film ended up performing poorly at the box office. Creator/RobertMulligan directed one more film after this. It was also the last feature film produced by MTM. |
| 97 | * ''Film/ClayPigeons'' (1998) — Budget, $8 million. Box office, $1.8 million-2.2 million. Director David Dobkin didn't direct for 5 years until ''Film/ShanghaiKnights''. |
| 98 | * ''Film/{{Clean and Sober}}'' (1988) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $8,674,093. This was the directorial debut of Glenn Gordon Caron and the first dramatic role for Creator/MichaelKeaton. Critics gave it mixed reviews, who generally felt the film's premise, about a recovering drug addict, was "[[TooBleakStoppedCaring perhaps too grim.]]" Keaton's performance inspired producer Jon Peters to cast him in ''Film/{{Batman|1989}}'' after Peters saw an early screening. |
| 99 | * ''Film/CleanSlate'' (1994) — Budget, $18 million. Box office, $7,355,425. This wasn't received well by critics, and it was part of a string of flops that year for Creator/DanaCarvey that would help convince him to take a hiatus from the big screen (another factor was raising his family). |
| 100 | * ''Film/{{Cleopatra}}'' (1963) — Budget, $44 million. Box office, $57,777,778. This was the highest grossing film of 1963. However, Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox only got roughly half the film's box office take (the rest went to the theaters), and since $44 million was an exorbitant price tag in 1963's dollars (equivalent to $325.6 million in TheNewTens), they nearly went bankrupt and had to sell off parts of its huge backlot (which turned the remnants of the sold parts to what became known as Century City). Fox was only saved when Julie Andrews's ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'' became a success. ''Cleopatra''’s legendarily TroubledProduction and ultimate failure were decisive moments in the MediaNotes/FallOfTheStudioSystem, only turning a profit for the studio in the 1990s thanks to home video sales. ''Cleopatra'' would be the last time director and co-writer Joseph Mankiewicz would be associated with Fox, and he only wrote one more film 4 years later, though Mankiewicz would continue to direct until 1972, when he retired (he hated ''Cleopatra'' and had tried to get his name off the credits). This is also the last film to involve producer Walter Wanger, who died 5 years later, and killed the SwordAndSandal genre's A-level until ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'' in 2000. |
| 101 | * ''Film/{{Clifford}}'' (1994) — Budget, $19 million. Box office, $7,411,659. This was left on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment for nearly three years due to Creator/OrionPictures' bankruptcy problems. The end result was mauled by critics and it embarrassed the writers William Porter and Steven Kampmann so much that they used pseudonyms, Jay Dee Rock and Bobby von Hayes. While Porter hasn't written another film, Kampmann would wait six years before his next script, the TV movie ''Special Delivery''. |
| 102 | * ''Film/{{Clockers}}'' (1995) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $13,071,518. This Creator/SpikeLee film opened at number two behind ''Film/ToWongFooThanksForEverythingJulieNewmar'', but quickly fell through. |
| 103 | * ''Film/CloudAtlas'' (2012) — Budget, $102 million. Box office, $27,108,272 (domestic), $129,787,143 (worldwide). The film version of Creator/{{David Mitchell|Author}}'s novel, directed by Creator/TheWachowskis and Tom Tykwer, [[AudienceAlienatingPremise alienated potential audiences with its massive length]] [[NestedStory and six different storylines]]. It didn't help that it received criticism from Asians (and Creator/HalleBerry) for the decision to have some of the actors, Berry included, play in {{Yellowface}}. |
| 104 | * ''Film/ClubDread'' (2004) — Budget, $8.5 million. Box office, $7,565,807. |
| 105 | * ''Film/ClubParadise'' (1986) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $12,308,521. Creator/HaroldRamis didn't direct again until ''Film/GroundhogDay'' in 1993. It was also the final film for co-star Adolph Caesar, who died a few months before its release. |
| 106 | * ''Film/{{Clue}}'' (1985) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $14,643,997. This adaptation of the board game annoyed critics and confounded audiences with its MultipleEndings gimmick - each showing of the movie would have one of three possible endings. The home video releases feature all three endings back-to-back. It later became a CultClassic, though Hollywood wouldn't attempt another movie based off a ([[Film/{{Jumanji}} real-life]]) board game until ''Film/{{Battleship}}''. A remake of this film has been lingering in DevelopmentHell for about a decade. |
| 107 | * ''Film/{{Cobb}}'' (1994) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $1,007,583. This {{biopic}} of baseball player Ty Cobb was [[BasedOnAGreatBigLie based on the now-discredited book]] by Al Stump. It had a mixed reception from critics, who praised Creator/TommyLeeJones's performance as Cobb but felt [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade his character's unpleasant personality]] [[AngstAversion made the film unbearable]], and never left a limited release. |
| 108 | * ''Film/TheCobbler'' (2015) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $1.2 million. One of several major busts for Creator/AdamSandler in 2015 alongside ''Film/{{Pixels}}''. |
| 109 | * ''[[Film/CodeNameTheCleaner Code Name: The Cleaner]]'' (2007) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $10,337,477. This film's bombing [[CreatorKiller cleaned the clock]] of director Les Mayfield; he has never directed another movie since. It was also one of the last independent releases of New Line Cinema before ''Film/TheGoldenCompass'' got them swallowed by Warner by the end of the year. |
| 110 | * ''Film/CohenAndTate'' (1988) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $64,227 (domestic). This was Eric Red's first directing job, and is part of a string of flops for him. |
| 111 | * ''Film/ColdCreekManor'' (2003) — Budget, $45 million. Box office, $29,119,434. This marked the final straw in the career of director Mike Figgis, as he hasn't helmed a mainstream film since. |
| 112 | * ''Film/ColdHeaven'' (1992) — Budget, $4.5 million. Box office, $17,163. Creator/NicolasRoeg's religious thriller was filmed in 1989 but was shelved for a few years due to the bankruptcy of the film's production company. Hemdale subsequently picked up the rights and dumped the film into a very limited release. |
| 113 | * ''Film/{{The Cold Light of Day}}'' (2012) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $16.9 million. This finished off the directing career of Mabrouk El Merchi when it crawled away from theaters after four weeks. |
| 114 | * ''Film/ColdPursuit'' (2019) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $32,138,862 (domestic), $76,419,755 (worldwide). This [[ForeignRemake English remake]] of the Norwegian film ''Film/InOrderOfDisappearance'', both directed by Hans Peter Moland, was generally liked by critics, but it fell through the ice in a crowded marketplace. Creator/LiamNeeson didn't help the film's publicity when he related in an interview how he tried to avenge a friend's rape by looking for a black man to fight, kicking off a long apology tour that only made things worse. |
| 115 | * ''Film/CollateralDamage'' (2002) — Budget, $85 million. Box office, $78,382,433. One of many films pushed back after the 9/11 attacks to avoid people thinking it was reminscent of said event, mostly due to its terrorism theme. Didn't help its cause. |
| 116 | * ''Film/{{College}}'' (2008) — Budget, $7 million. Box office, $6,265,483. The directorial debut of Deb Hagan was given a universal lashing by critics and lurked around in theaters for 10 weeks. |
| 117 | * ''Film/{{Collide}}'' (2017) — Budget, $21.5 million. Box office, $4.8 million. According to Box Office Mojo, this movie holds the MedalOfDishonor for biggest theater drop at a colossal 87.3% during its second weekend, which dethroned the previous record held by 2005's ''Film/{{Undiscovered}}''. |
| 118 | * ''Film/{{Colombiana}}'' (2011) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $36,665,854 (domestic), $60,965,854 (worldwide). This was a StarDerailingRole for Creator/ZoeSaldana as a leading lady, though she survived overall thanks to ''Film/StarTrek2009'' and ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014''. |
| 119 | * ''Film/ColorOfNight'' (1994) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $46.7 million. There was an [[TroubledProduction exceptional amount of behind-the-scenes drama]] that engulfed both this erotic thriller's production crew and distributor Disney, who released it through Hollywood Pictures. Director Richard Rush and producer Andrew Vajna's headbutting led to Vajna firing Rush and cutting 18 minutes of footage, sparking Director's Guild intervention and contributing to Rush suffering a heart attack that left him bedridden for four months. In addition, ''Color of Night'' was part of a particularly bad month for Disney[[note]]the next week saw the ugly exit of studio chief Jeffrey Katzenberg after he and mentor Michael Eisner had been involved in headbutting themselves along with the release of ''Film/ItsPat'', which got pulled out of theaters immediately[[/note]]. Rush never got involved with another theatrical film ever again, but the film was VindicatedByHistory after the release of a director's cut on home video, where it became one of the most-rented films of 1995. |
| 120 | * ''Film/TheColorPurple2023'' — Budget, $90-100 million. Box office, $67.5 million. Despite mostly positive reviews and a strong Christmas Day opening, this film suffered a steep drop-off at the box office, with over a third of its ''total gross'' coming in that opening day. The drop-off could be explained by audiences being confused by a marketing campaign that mostly hid that the film was a ''musical'' (specifically, an adaptation of [[Theatre/TheColorPurpleMusical the Broadway show]] rather than a straight remake of the [[Film/TheColorPurple1985 original film]]); alternatively, audiences may have had their fill of musicals from the much more successful ''Film/{{Wonka}}'', also released by Warner Bros less than two weeks prior. ''The Color Purple'' also barely received a release outside of the United States, making close to 90% of its total gross in North America, and heavily underperformed on the awards circuit after being expected to compete for major accolades. |
| 121 | * ''Film/{{Colossal}}'' (2017) - Budget, $14 million. Box office, $3 million (domestically), $4.5 million (worldwide). [[AcclaimedFlop In spite of great reviews]] for being an innovative GenreMashup piece, a limited release (its peak was 327 theaters) prevented the movie from making monstruous numbers. |
| 122 | * ''Film/{{Come See the Paradise}}'' (1990) — Budget, $17.5 million. Box office, $947,360. It got decent reviews, but it was dumped into only 97 theaters. It's now best known as the focus of a 2014 UCLA study which identified it as the most obvious OscarBait in history [[note]]It received no nominations.[[/note]]. Director Creator/AlanParker had better luck the next year with ''Film/TheCommitments''. |
| 123 | * ''Film/{{Commandments}}'' (1997) — Budget, $6 million. Box office, $548,567. A heavy critical panning ensured this romantic dramedy would die out in a limited release. |
| 124 | * ''Film/TheCompany'' (2003) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $6,401,690. A passion project for star Creator/NeveCampbell, this drama about a young ballerina opened to good reviews, but never got a very wide release. It proved to be director Creator/RobertAltman's penultimate film, and he took a three-year hiatus before making [[Film/APrairieHomeCompanion his last film]]. |
| 125 | * ''Film/CompanyBusiness'' (1991) — Budget, $18 million. Box office, $1,501,785. This Cold War thriller came out during the final months of the Soviet Union's existence. Mikhail Baryshinikov [[CreatorBacklash hated the film so much he refused to promote it]]; between this and the same year's ''The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez'', he wouldn't take up acting until the final season of ''Series/SexAndTheCity''. Director/Writer Nicholas Meyer rebounded a few months later with ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'' and Creator/GeneHackman did so next year with ''Film/{{Unforgiven}}''. |
| 126 | * ''Film/CompanyMan'' (2000) — Budget, $16 million. Box office, $146,193. Peter Askin's directorial debut; his next credit came seven years later for the documentary ''Trumbo''. His co-director, Douglas [=McGrath=], made ''Literature/NicholasNickleby'' two years later. |
| 127 | * ''Film/{{Communion}}'' (1989) — Budget, $5 million (estimated). Box office, $1.9 million. Based on the controversial book by Whitley Strieber about a strange experience he had, Strieber lambasted the movie as "making him look crazy". It is the last theatrical film that director Phillippe Mora has done to date. |
| 128 | * ''Film/{{Conan the Barbarian|2011}}'' (2011) — Budget, $90 million. Box office, $48,795,021. Slayed an attempt by Lionsgate to revive the ''Conan'' movies for The New '10s; they announced that this film would not be canon and the next one would return to Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger, though that sequel has gone silent. Screenwriting duo Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer have had zero screenplays credited to them since this film, and it dented Creator/JasonMomoa's move into cinema before his starring role in ''Film/Aquaman2018'' resuscitated it. |
| 129 | * ''[[Film/{{Airport}} The Concorde... Airport '79]]'' (1979) — Budget, $14 million. Box office, $13 million. Critics and audiences agreed that this fourth film in the ''Film/{{Airport}}'' series was a [[{{Narm}} laughably]] [[SoBadItsGood bad]] {{sequel|itis}} and its reception [[FranchiseKiller grounded the franchise permanently]]. The DisasterMovie genre [[GenreKiller was also crippled]] the following year by ''Film/{{Airplane}}'', which spoofed this franchise. |
| 130 | * ''Film/{{Concussion}}'' (2015) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $34,255,169 (domestic), $40,705,403 (worldwide). A film criticizing the most financially successful sports league in the United States unsurprisingly did not have a huge audience turnout. It did receive good reviews, though. |
| 131 | * ''Film/{{The Condemned|2007}}'' (2007) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $8,642,858. One of many Wrestling/{{WWE}} Films to appear on this list, this film closed after 4 weeks and lost its makers $15,700,000. Main protagonist Wrestling/SteveAustin has wisely stuck to wrestling (and wrestling podcasts) ever since. |
| 132 | * ''Film/{{Condorman}}'' (1981) — Budget, $14 million. Box office, $2.5 million (rentals). This superhero/spy spoof tanked with critics and audiences and was a key factor in Disney CEO Ron Miller losing his job a few years later. This was one of two duds that year for director Charles Jarrott, the other being ''The Amateur'', that kept him off screen for five years. Star Creator/MichaelCrawford stayed afloat with the title role in ''Theatre/{{Barnum}}'', but he wouldn't be in a movie until a voice role in ''WesternAnimation/OnceUponAForest''. This has since become a CultClassic. |
| 133 | * ''Film/{{Coneheads}}'' (1993) - Budget, $30 million. Box office, $21,274,717. This put director Steve Barron's studio film career on shakey ground before it was torpedoed by ''Film/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio'' three years later. |
| 134 | * ''Film/{{Confessions of a Dangerous Mind}}'' (2002) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $16,007,718 (domestic), $33,013,805 (worldwide). Got pretty good reviews from critics, but Creator/GeorgeClooney would wait another 3 years before sitting back in the director's chair, and this is one of the last times game show professional Chuck Barris, who worked with the film that was based on his CIA "autobiography" and is the creator of ''Series/TheNewlywedGame[=/=]Series/TheDatingGame[=/=]Series/TheGongShow'', would deal with media not related to novels and print. |
| 135 | * ''Film/{{Confidence}}'' (2003) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $12,251,640 (domestic), $23,014,206 (worldwide). It got decent reviews despite the middling box office. |
| 136 | * ''Film/{{Connie and Carla}}'' (2004) — Budget, $27 million. Box office, $11,341,016. Critics gave this comedy a mixed reception while audiences were more favorable. It would be five years before Nia Vardalos would write another film. |
| 137 | * ''Film/TheConqueror'' (1956) — Budget, $6 million. Box office, $4.5 million (domestic), $9 million (worldwide). This infamous movie was the [[CreatorKiller straw that broke]] Creator/RKOPictures' back after spending nearly a decade crumbling under the erratic leadership of Creator/HowardHughes. The film wound up getting [[QuestionableCasting mocked for casting]] Creator/JohnWayne as UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan. ''The Conqueror'' [[StarDerailingRole derailed]] the careers of a handful of Hollywood heavyweights including Hughes, though Wayne wasn't one of those careers, and the filming location, which was downwind of a nuclear test site, may have killed several of the crew including Wayne (most of the people involved with the film died of cancer, which radiation can cause). Hughes, who produced this, quickly bought up all prints of the film for up to $12 million and refused to let them resurface and see the light of day again until after he died, at which point Universal got the film rights; this movie also exacerbated his obsessive-compulsive disorder. |
| 138 | * ''Film/{{Conquest}}'' (1937) — Budget, $2,732,000. Box office, $2,141,000. Recorded loss, $1,397,000. This {{biopic}} of Countess Marie Walewska, the mistress of UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte, was MGM's biggest bomb at the time. This was a StarDerailingRole for Creator/GretaGarbo, who played Walewska, who was labeled "box-office poison" the following year and made only two films before her retirement in 1941. |
| 139 | * ''Film/TheConspirator'' (2011) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $15,478,800. Its widest release was in 849 theaters. Creator/RobertRedford directed only one more film after this. |
| 140 | * ''Film/TheContender'' (2000) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $17,872,723 (domestic), $22,361,811 (worldwide). This political drama was released during the 2000 election and was hit with its own scandal when Creator/GaryOldman accused director Rod Lurie of re-editing the film to make his Republican senator character less sympathetic. Nevertheless, the film was critically acclaimed, particularly for the performances of Creator/JoanAllen and Creator/JeffBridges. |
| 141 | * ''Film/{{Conviction|2010}}'' (2010) -- Budget, $12.5 million. Box office, $11.1 million. While director Creator/TonyGoldwyn has maintained a steady acting career, the only things he directed after this one flopped are some episodes of various TV shows, including eight for ''Series/{{Scandal}}'', where he plays President Fitzgerald Grant III. It ''did'' get decent reviews, though. |
| 142 | * ''Film/CookiesFortune'' (1999) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $10.9 million. This was Creator/ChrisODonnell's first film since ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' two years earlier. He made two more films before taking a temporary hiatus from the big screen (which had more to do with his new family than anything) and subsequently going into TV. It was also another AcclaimedFlop for Creator/RobertAltman. |
| 143 | * ''Film/CoolAsIce'' (1991) — Budget, $6 million. Box office, $1.1 million. Was seen as one of the factors of Music/VanillaIce's popularity downfall. David Kellogg wouldn't direct another film until ''Film/InspectorGadget1999''. |
| 144 | * ''Film/CoolWorld'' (1992) — Budget, $28 million. Box office, $14,110,589. Director Creator/RalphBakshi was so dismayed by the film's reception and ExecutiveMeddling (which included star Creator/KimBasinger [[{{Bowdlerise}} bowdlerizing the movie]] to show for sick hospital children [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids even though that was not the intention of Bakshi]] '''at all''') that he eventually retired from filmmaking. ''Cool World'' was also one of a few flops in the early '90s that [[StarDerailingRole melted the A-list career of Basinger]] and Creator/GabrielByrne, and film helmer Frank Mancuso's career was downgraded to B-level status ever since. The two men who rewrote the film into what it became without Bakshi's knowledge, Michael Grais and Mark Victor, saw their cinematic careers erased until 2000 rolled in, and they never wrote again. Only Creator/BradPitt and the veteran cartoon voice actors made it out alive. It would be another quarter-century before another original adult animated movie, ''WesternAnimation/SausageParty'', would be made. |
| 145 | * ''Film/{{Cooties}}'' (2014) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $55,749 (domestic), $260,542-348,091 (worldwide). Only showed on 29 screens in the U.S. and got a steep 77% drop from its first weekend to its second, as well as a reduction to 20 screens. It was also streamed on-demand right away, and some markets had it go DirectToVideo. |
| 146 | * ''Film/CopOut'' (2010) — Budget, $37 million. Box office, $44,875,481 (domestic), $55,439,786 (worldwide). Director Creator/KevinSmith put the blame on the movie's derision on star Creator/BruceWillis a la ''Hudson Hawk'', while praising co-star Tracy Morgan. Smith got a demotion to the B-list of directors when the movie underwhelmed, and the brothers Mark and Robb Cullen, who wrote the movie, would be stuck in Hollywood Limbo until 2016. |
| 147 | * ''Film/{{Cops and Robbersons}}'' (1994) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $11,391,093. The first of two films released in 1994 directed by Michael Ritchie to flop, followed by ''The Scout''. This film (and ''City Slickers 2'') also put the kibosh on the career comeback of Creator/JackPalance just two years after his Oscar win. He stuck exclusively to TV movies after this until his death in 2006. It also didn't do Creator/ChevyChase any favors. |
| 148 | * ''Film/TheCore'' (2003) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $31,186,986 (domestic), $73,498,611 (worldwide). Critics joked about this film being extremely implausible in its science. Director Jon Amiel wouldn't helm another movie until the end of the decade (''Film/{{Creation}}''), and star Creator/AaronEckhart hates the movie, and claims to have once personally talked a video store customer out of renting it. |
| 149 | * ''Film/TheCorruptor'' (1999) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $24,493,601. Director James Foley waited four years to make his next movie after this action thriller was beaten at the box office after eight weeks. |
| 150 | * ''Film/{{Cosmopolis}}'' (2012) — Budget, $20.5 million. Box office, $6.1 million. Its limited release topped out at 65 theaters and ended after seven weeks. The critics still gave it respectful reviews, though. |
| 151 | * ''Film/TheCottonClub'' (1984) — Budget, $58 million. Box office, $25,928,721. Suffered an epically TroubledProduction, including the gangland-style execution of a would-be backer and a budget-skyrocketing war of egos between producer Robert Evans and director Creator/FrancisFordCoppola, both of whose careers were already in trouble from other box office disappointments. |
| 152 | * ''Film/TheCountryBears'' (2002) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $18,012,097. This not only put a dent in Haley Joel Osment's career (he did have the role of Sora in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'' that came out the same year as this film to offset the damage; that game and ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' were really the only two bright spots for The Walt Disney Company that year), but also led to Creator/ChristopherWalken to not try for another role in a Disney-branded film until the ''Jungle Book'' remake in 2016 (he earned a [[MediaNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward Razzie nom]] for this movie). This is also one of a handful of attempts by Disney to turn their theme park attractions into movie franchises; their next one, ''Pirates of the Caribbean'', DID succeed in becoming a franchise but it wasn't enough to save Michael Eisner's fading career at Disney. [[Music/TheEagles Don Henley]], who provided the singing voice for one of the bears, also mostly steered clear of the movies after being in this one as well, and this was the last theatrical role ''Film/GalaxyQuest'' alumni Daryl Mitchell took for a few years (he had been paralyzed from the waist down in a motorcycle accident). |
| 153 | * ''Film/{{Coupe de Ville}}'' (1990) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $715,983. Joe Roth didn't direct another film for 11 years, though he had a successful career as a movie producer to fall back on. This was also the first produced script for Mike Binder, who would become a director in his own right. |
| 154 | * ''Film/TheCovenant2023'' - Budget, $55 million. Box office, $21.6 million. Part of a rough run for both Creator/GuyRitchie, coming out just a few months after ''Film/OperationFortuneRuseDeGuerre'', and for Creator/JakeGyllenhaal in non-MCU roles. Part of this film's underperformance might have to do with the subject matter of the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan and the return to power of the Taliban, as the Creator/GerardButler vehicle ''Kandahar'' [[DuelingWorks released a few weeks later with a similar premise]] did even worse. |
| 155 | * ''Film/TheCowboyWay'' (1994) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $20,280,016. Gregg Champion hasn’t directed a feature film since this one. (His next movie went straight to video, and has worked on television afterwards.) |
| 156 | * ''Film/CowboysAndAliens'' (2011) — Budget, $163 million. Box office, $100,240,551 (domestic), $174,822,325 (worldwide). Director Creator/JonFavreau didn't direct another film with a nine-figure budget until he helmed Disney's [[Film/TheJungleBook2016 acclaimed remake]] of ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook''; co-producer Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, who is a Marvel alumnus and the founder of Malibu Comics and Platinum Studios, has not had his name or Platinum's name attached to any film since thanks to this and ''Dylan Dog: Dead of Night''; and actor Noah Ringer, who had the dishonor of playing Avatar Aang in ''Film/TheLastAirbender'', hasn't been a visible actor since. This failure led the Walt Disney Studios to rethink their investment in their own fantasy/western ''Film/TheLoneRanger2013'', but despite reports of them cancelling the film, Disney proceeded with production, and ''The Lone Ranger'' would bomb even harder, sending the science fiction/western genre [[GenreKiller to Mars]]. |
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| 160 | * ''Film/{{Crackers}}'' (1984) -- Budget, $12 million. Box office, $129,268. |
| 161 | * ''Film/CradleWillRock'' (1999) — Budget, $36 million. Box office, $2,903,404. The film got good reviews, but it still put Creator/TimRobbins' cinematic directing/writing career to sleep. His future directing credits are on TV and he wrote one TV movie 10 years later. |
| 162 | * ''[[Film/{{Crank}} Crank: High Voltage]]'' (2009) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $13,684,249 (domestic), $34,560,577 (worldwide). There have been talks of a third ''Crank'' movie, however. |
| 163 | * ''Literature/{{Crash}}'' (1996) — Budget, $9 million. Box office, $2 million. The film version of JG Ballard's novel proved as controversial as its source material for its graphic depictions of sex, so much so that some right-wing groups tried to get it banned in the UK (it managed to get banned in only ''one borough'' of London). It polarized critics and audiences and its extremely limited release did it no favors. |
| 164 | * ''Film/{{Crazy in Alabama}}'' (1999) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $2,005,840 (domestic). This was the first of two attempts by Spanish sensation Creator/AntonioBanderas to create a directing career for himself, and the film starred his then-wife Creator/MelanieGriffith. This film's failure ended those dreams right away, and the only other directorial effort from Banderas is a Spanish-only film in 2006. This movie also did serious damage to the career of producer Debra Hill, since she didn't make another movie for 6 years, right before she died. |
| 165 | * ''Film/CrazyPeople'' (1990) — Budget, $18 million. Box office, $13.2 million. The movie suffered from various setbacks during production, including its two leads walking off as filming started and the studio having the reshoot with two replacements, as well as TWO directors getting replaced. The movie confused a lot of critics and the bizarre promotional material turned off audiences. It's the only film credit to date by director Barry L. Young, and the last film written by Mitch Markowitz. |
| 166 | * ''Film/{{Creation}}'' (2009) — Budget, 10 million British Pounds Sterling (roughly $15.5 million). Box office, 341,323 U.S. Dollars (domestic), $896,298 (worldwide). This was the last movie that Jon Amiel directed, but he has fared well on television. |
| 167 | * ''Film/{{The Crew|2000}}'' (2000) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $13,105,853. The last theatrical film directed by Michael Dinner, who maintains steady work in TV as of 2023. |
| 168 | * ''Film/CrimesAndMisdemeanors'' (1989) — Budget, $19 million. Box office, $18,254,702. This movie did succeed in becoming an AcclaimedFlop, so it didn't hurt its helmers' careers much at all. |
| 169 | * ''Film/{{Crimewave|1985}}'' (1985) — Budget, $3 million. Box office, $5,101. Yes, you read that right. In America this early movie from director Creator/SamRaimi was released to theaters in ''only two states'', Alaska and Kansas, in order to obtain quick television rights. Star and co-producer Creator/BruceCampbell likes to say "The movie wasn't released, it escaped." |
| 170 | * ''Film/Criminal2016'' — Budget, $31.5 million. Box office, $14,703,497 (domestic), $32,618,497 (worldwide). The film's weak performance with critics and audiences could imprison further ideas of director Ariel Vromen directing further non-documentary features. It's also not good news for the producers, and is the final film written by Douglas Cook, who died the year before, with his partner, David Weisberg, being on the bubble as well. |
| 171 | * ''Film/CrimsonPeak'' (2015) — Budget, $55 million. Box office, $31,090,320 (domestic), $74,048,222 (worldwide). This was a victim of MisaimedMerchandising as Universal promoted it as a straight horror film instead of the Gothic Romance Creator/GuillermoDelToro intended. |
| 172 | * ''Film/CrissCross'' (1992) — Budget, $14 million. Box office, $3,052,738. |
| 173 | * ''Film/{{Cristiada}}'' (2012) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $9,622,846. This iced over director Dean Wright and writer Michael James Love's careers. |
| 174 | * ''Film/CriticalCare'' (1997) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $221,193. Its widest release was 34 theaters. |
| 175 | * ''Film/CrookedArrows'' (2012) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $1,832,541. Director Steve Rash and writer Brad Riddell's careers have yet to get out of the woods after this. |
| 176 | * ''Film/CrossingOver'' (2009) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $3,529,869. This sat on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment for two years before it was sent to die in a limited release. Wayne Kramer directed only one more film, ''Pawn Shop Chronicles'', after this. |
| 177 | * ''Film/CrossingTheBridge'' (1992) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $479,676. Blamable on the film topping out at ''235 theaters''. |
| 178 | * ''[[Film/{{Crossroads|1986}} Crossroads]]'' (1986) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $5,839,031. |
| 179 | * ''Theatre/TheCrucible'' (1996) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $7,343,144. The film version of Creator/ArthurMiller's play was an AcclaimedFlop which never expanded beyond 344 theaters. |
| 180 | * ''Film/CryBaby'' (1990) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $8.2 million. Was almost [[CreatorKiller an end]] to Creator/JohnWaters' directing career (it DID lead to an end to Rachel Talalay's producing career for 7 years; the next film she produced, ''The Borrowers'', finished the job this film started). |
| 181 | * ''Film/CryFreedom'' (1987) — Budget, $29 million. Box office, $5,899,797. Creator/RichardAttenborough's film about the death of anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko and his friendship with journalist Donald Woods was an AcclaimedFlop that never left limited release. It was Creator/DenzelWashington's StarMakingRole and the source of his first Oscar nomination. |
| 182 | * ''Film/ACureForWellness'' (2017) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $26,536,570. Only two weeks into its American release, it experienced the second biggest theater drop in history during its third weekend. The film was the second major bomb in a row for producer/writer/director Creator/GoreVerbinski after ''Film/TheLoneRanger2013'', and he has not directed since. |
| 183 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Curious George|2006}}'' (2006) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $58,360,760 (domestic), $69,834,815 (worldwide). Its failure was another blow to theatrical traditional animation; however, it was well-reviewed by critics, and became popular with audiences when it hit DVD, enough to later earn two direct-to-DVD sequels and a TV series. Meanwhile, Jack Johnson's "Upside Down" became a BreakawayPopHit. |
| 184 | * ''Film/TheCurrentWar'' (2019) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $5.9 million (domestic), $10.8 million (worldwide). This was placed on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment due to the collapse of its original distributor, Creator/TheWeinsteinCompany, and its tepid response at the Toronto International Film Festival. It was re-edited for its eventual release. The end result was greeted with a better critical response than the original cut, but audiences weren't interested, going to holdovers such as ''Film/MaleficentMistressOfEvil'' and ''Film/{{Joker|2019}}''. |
| 185 | * ''Film/TheCurse'' (1987) - Budget, $4 million. Box office, $1.9 million. This adaptation of Creator/HPLovecraft's ''Literature/TheColourOutOfSpace'' didn't set the box office on fire, but it did spawn two InNameOnly sequels. David Keith, who made his directorial debut here, primarly went back to acting after this, directing only two more films. |
| 186 | * ''Film/TheCurseOfTheJadeScorpion'' (2001) — Budget, $33 million. Box office, $18,914,307. Almost killed Creator/WoodyAllen's career until ''Film/MatchPoint'', revived it. |
| 187 | * ''Film/CurseOfThePinkPanther'' (1983) — Budget, $11 million. Box office, $4,491,986. A failed attempt to continue ''Franchise/ThePinkPanther'' series without Creator/PeterSellers, ''Curse'' also marked the final film for Creator/DavidNiven. This and ''Film/TrailOfThePinkPanther'' put the series in remission for ten years. |
| 188 | * ''Film/{{Cursed|2005}}'' (2005) — Budget, $38 million. Box office, $29,621,722. This was hit with massive ExecutiveMeddling that forced it to undergo numerous reshoots and rewrites. Director Creator/WesCraven and writer Kevin Williamson considered it their biggest regret and the critics were more than happy to rip it apart once it finally premiered. |
| 189 | * ''Film/CuttersWay'' (1981) — Budget, $5 million. Box office, $1,729,274. Originally released under the title ''Cutter and Bone'', the film initially played in only seven theaters in New York City and was pulled after a week. United Artists transferred marketing duties to its art-house division, which retitled the film ''Cutter's Way'' and re-released it to much better results. |
| 190 | * ''Film/CutthroatIsland'' (1995) — Budget, $98 million. Box office, $18,517,322. After adjusting for inflation, it's the biggest confirmed box office bomb of all time.[[note]]Three other films may have lost more but their losses are given as a range so it's not certain whether they lost more money or not.[[/note]] It [[CreatorKiller bankrupted Carolco Pictures]], [[StarDerailingRole fully derailed]] the careers of Creator/GeenaDavis and Creator/MatthewModine and the former's marriage with director Creator/RennyHarlin (whose career was also badly damaged), and [[GenreKiller destroyed the entire swashbuckling adventure genre]]. (It also seems that any pirate movie without the ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' name is destined to fail.) Only composer Music/JohnDebney's career survived. |
| 191 | * ''Film/{{Cyrano}}'' (2021) - Budget, $30 million. Total worldwide gross, $6.4 million. The failure was attributed to the COVID-impacted theatrical marketplace, a very last minute ReleaseDateChange that moved the film's wide release back from December 2021 to February 2022, and InvisibleAdvertising that tried to hide that the film was a musical. |
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